Week 50

Happy Easter! Semana Santa was kinda crazy, but we survived:) People get really into it here. I was hardcore craving Reece´s special edition Easter eggs. best surprise ever-we all did service as a zone and after had a little Easter egg hunt. 2 elders in our zone got packages last week, one received plastic Easter eggs, the other candy. so they combined efforts and it was so fun! I can´t even remember the last time I searched for candy. 

 

With our 81 year old ward mission leader, the other Hnas. & I went to ¨the encalada¨. ward boundaries changed and we´re starting from scratch in this new part of our already huge area. lots of potential, taught a lot and have many new investigators!! We picked up 3 for church yesterday and they really liked it!! there´s nothing like taking a taxi and racing around to see if who we taught was gonna really come to church, and seeing that she´s all ready and was waiting for us:) the BEST!!

From our normal/main area of Monserrate, about 8 of our investigators committed to coming yesterday, but the family of 6 went to visit their sick grandmother and the other 2 headed off to the beach:( 

 

Went to the new missionaries & trainers meeting this week and it was awesome! cannot believe that she´s already been here for 6 weeks. time has seriously FLOWN by. Tomorrow are cambios and I´ll be starting my 6th transfer here in monserrate. haha we´ve got big plans for this transfer, gonna make it the BEST thus far!! 

 

We taught carmen´s sister, daughter, and son-in-law. really nice, the son-in-law, Jose, lived 19 years in New York. pretty cool! 

Vanessa & Jose, Carmen, Lily, and Ower, and Jonathan and Diana are all doing well! We wanna set some DATES!! patience, my friend. patience. 

Eduardo is such a rock-star primary kiddo. we visited him Friday morning and he showed us all the little things he did in the last liahona that came out. man he´s awesome. Jose too. Going through a little heartbreak, but his testimony´s rock solid. 

 

Had a wonderful consejo de barrio-ward council last night. probably the best one that we´ve ever had in my almost 7 months in the ward. ironic, cause we had to leave early:( just when it was getting good too!! 

 

Speaking of cambios-hna. steckler´s finally headed off to porvenir to the smallest area of the mission as a senior companion to a Mexican hna. that just finished her training. hna. allred is headed off to chimbote with hna. EVANS!! ahh so excited for them both:) and hna. martinez will be training a brand-new hermana. crazy, right? oh and salaverry is getting opened back up-again and their area will be in our zone. 

sandrita was SO happy to get a little birthday love from mr.eric boody!! she asked me if the money was real. haha 

Mi hermanita was ECSTATIc about the card and $$ that dad sent!! she asked if the money was real and kept saying ¨tengo plata de los ESTADOS UNIDOS¨. haha thank you mr. boody!! it made her day and was such a sweet surprise for her to open up:) when we skype on mother´s day, she can say thank you in person:)

Love you all and hope you have a beautiful day!!! thank you for all of your love and support for me always:)